No DIG

WEEK ENDING 05/02/22

   Ooops. I forgot to publish this blog on the 29th Jan so this a two week blog. Mind you the second week has been very quiet. Lots of personal stuff to do and the weather has been damp, drizzly, on the cold side and the ground was really too wet to work on.  So, some leeks dug up and a chicken coop cleaned out. This last week the hens have laid an average of 5.1 eggs per day, an continuing improvement week on week. 

  WEEKING ENDING 28/01/22

   This week any time spent on the vegetable garden has been in the continuing construction of my second "no dig" bed. The first was my strawberry bed and very successful it has been too. Fingers crossed this year will be as good! The second bed is almost done. Another couple of barrows of soil should see the end of it although the chickens will not doubt attempt to flatten it. The "no dig" bed is a layer of cardboard, in attempt to stop weeds coming through, and then in my case chicken manure, raked up leaves, chopped up cabbage leaves topped off with soil. The soil was from my enormous pile of weeds that have rotted down over the last couple of years and were forming a dyke!! With a bit of luck I will use the bed to plant lettuce and what else I am not sure of at this point in time.

Day 1

Day 1

Day 1 with helpers

Day 2 second half

Day 2 second half

Day 2 all but done! With helper!

  The start of the week saw very cold days with some very hard frosts. Lots of hoar frost! 

 Probably the last of the sprouts have been picked. Considering they did not look good they have been ok. Not brilliant but least I got some! Still pulling Touchon carrots and there are a few to go yet. It was a very good year for carrots in my garden. The remains of the cabbages have been removed along with the disappointing cauliflowers. Leaves chopped up and added to the "no dig" bed. More forking and weeding done and the first attempt at sorting out the self seeded parsnip seedlings done. 

   Chickens are being chickens and being a menace on my new "no dig" bed. Coops cleaned out and contents spread in the new "no dig" bed. Average of 4.4 eggs per day this week, an improvement on last week.